Beverly Hills: Season 2

Season 2, Episode 3: Hold On to Me

~~~(Flying Machine by Everly)~~~
   Anna rolls her eyes at the mall on Wednesday after school. She's on her first 'date' with Luke and he thought it was a good idea for them to go shopping for an outfit for him to wear to his brother's wedding this weekend. Anna was looking forward to this ever since she saw him for the first time in the hallway but it's clear why Brooklyn didn't want to continue things. Luke is a total snore.
   "What about this one?" Luke asks her before she turns around to see him coming out of the dressing room of Men's Warehouse. He's wearing a form fitting tux that doesn't make him look bad at all.
   "Looks great." Anna checks the time on her watch around her wrist. She could be doing so much other stuff right now. She'd much rather be back in school if it meant not being here trying not to fall asleep from how boring Luke is.
   "It doesn't even have wrinkles." Luke snaps his fingers and points at himself in the mirror in front of him. "I love clothes without wrinkles."
   Anna leans against the wall trying not to scream of frustration.

   Cambridge and Dana pace back and forth together in the den of Cambridge's house, both of them clearly nervous to tell his parents about their relationship. He has no idea if Mr. and Mrs. Brightwell will be angry with him for taking Terrence's girlfriend but can't they look pass that side? He's been dead for almost a year. It's not like Terrence just passed and Cambridge is already hopping after Dana.
   "Okay, you ready for this?" Dana shoots him a worried look.
   "You aren't." Cambridge reads her face.
   "I WANT to be." Dana tells him honestly. "You know them better than I do. How are they going to react to this?"
   "We'll never know unless we say something to them." Cambridge whispers, hearing his parents chat to each other in the kitchen.
   "They're going to kill me." Dana whimpers and holds her stomach. "I'm going to be sick."
   "We can do this." Cambridge drags Dana into the kitchen where his parents stand at the island, sipping their morning mimosas. "Mom, dad, we have to tell you something."
   "Together?" Mr. Brightwell looks at the two of them.
   "Yes." Cambridge pulls Dana closer to him. Here goes nothing. "We're dating."
   "Shut up." Mrs. Brightwell looks from her son to Dana and then back to her son.
   "This is a joke, right?" Mr. Brightwell laughs but everyone else is silent. He looks at his wife for reinforcements. "Right?"
   "It's not a joke." Dana speaks up. "I like your son, a lot and things just happened-"
   "You're twenty years old." Mrs. Brightwell tells Dana. "That's a six year age difference between the two of you... that's illegal."
   "We're not telling you guys so you can criticize us." Cambridge says defensively. "We just thought you should know."
   "That went awful." Dana whispers to Cambridge as they leave the kitchen and return to the den. Cambridge doesn't say anything, knowing that she's more than correct.

   Israel and Rhyannon come home from school that same day and a familiar scent greets Israel at the door. His thick eyebrows knit together when he walks into the house, nearly gasping when he notices his dad sitting on the stairs across the foyer. He rises to his feet.
   "What the hell are you doing here?" Israel demands. The last he has seen of his dad he was in some rehab place that was almost like jail but actually helped with problems.
   "I'm out of rehab." Mr. Sepulveda's dark hair is messy and longer than it was before he left. He almost looks confused on why his sons aren't happy that he's back. His high cheekbones look more pronounced and his eyes are big and wide. Israel looks down at his father's hands, the ones that were used to hit him and pin him against the wall. "I've changed."
   "Doubt it." Rhyannon mumbles.
   "I doubt it too." Israel looks his dad up and down in disgust before marching up the stairs and away from his dad.

   "Okay, thank you." Eric hangs up his cell phone as Case watches him from the couch in their apartment. Case is finally getting back into the groove of living here again but he's still on edge with his sex tape getting posted on a gay porn site. He has been the talk of the school for days.
   "What did they say?" Case stands up from the couch, hoping for some good news. Eric had called the website to have them take it down since it wasn't posted under their permission.
   "They said they'd work on finding out who posted it." Eric sighs, sitting on the couch and shaking his head. "I'm such an idiot for coming up with that idea."
   "It's fine." Case says after a minute- even though he doesn't mean it. Nothing about this situation is fine. The cops still don't know who the burglars are and there's a sex tape of him surfacing the internet without his consent. He sits down again next to Eric on the couch. "We'll figure this all out."
~~~(END SONG)~~~